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| Changpeng Zhao / @cz_binance: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the company signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire FTX.com and help cover its liquidity crunch, pending due diligence — This afternoon, FTX asked for our help. There is a significant liquidity crunch. To protect users, we signed a non-binding LOI, intending to fully acquire FTX.com and help cover the liquidity crunch. We will be conducting a full DD in the coming days.
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Coin Metrics: on November 8, bitcoin fell 12.6% to $18,203 and briefly hit $17,300.80, its lowest level since November 2020; ether dropped 18.2% to $1,311.50 — FTX token plunges as Binance steps in to buy the crypto exchange's non-U.S. unit: CNBC Crypto World
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| Angus Berwick / Reuters: |
In a message to staff, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says withdrawals on FTX.com are “effectively paused” after FTX saw ~$6B of net withdrawals in 72 hours — Crypto exchange FTX saw around $6 billion of withdrawals in the 72 hours before Tuesday morning, according to a message …
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| Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
How Binance exacerbated a bank run on FTX before offering to acquire the company, and why the potential deal represents a meteoric fall for Sam Bankman-Fried — Binance, after exacerbating a bank run on rival crypto exchange FTX, offered to buy out the jewel in SBF's crown. — By Daniel KuhnLayer 2
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Questions about FTX's “liquidity crunch” and Binance's offer to buy the smaller exchange, likely for a fraction of its valuation of tens of billions of dollars — CZ vs. SBF — I kind of can't believe this worked? Here are Bloomberg's Philip Lagerkranser and Joanna Ossinger this morning:| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter plans to label select accounts “Official” when the new Blue launches; not all previously verified accounts will get the label, which won't be for sale — Twitter is rolling out another type of check mark to help distinguish accounts that users actually need to know are real.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff that layoffs begin on November 9, he is accountable for missteps, and his overoptimism about growth led to overstaffing — Meta Platforms Inc. will begin laying off employees on Wednesday morning, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told hundreds of executives on Tuesday.| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Research suggests Apple collects data about iPhone usage even when the iPhone Analytics setting to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether” is off — For all of Apple's talk about how private your iPhone is, the company vacuums up a lot of data about you. iPhones …
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission opens an in-depth investigation into Microsoft's proposed $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets a March 23 decision deadline — Microsoft Corp.'s proposed $69 billion takeover of games developer Activision Blizzard Inc. faces an in-depth European Union probe …
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Disney hit 235.7M global streaming subscribers in its Q4, above Netflix's 223.1M in its Q3; Disney+ had 164.2M subscribers, Hulu had 47.2M, and ESPN+ had 24.3M — Disney reported results for the final quarter of its 2022 fiscal year today, revealing a total of 164.2 million Disney+ global subscribers … | James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Nintendo announces a new joint venture, called Nintendo Systems, with DeNA, which co-developed several Nintendo titles for mobile, including Fire Emblem Heroes — New subsidiary will open in April 2023, focusing on research and development to improve Nintendo's digital business — At a glance
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases 68 security fixes, including patches for six actively exploited Windows zero-day flaws and 11 vulnerabilities classified as Critical — Today is Microsoft's November 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for six actively exploited Windows vulnerabilities and a total of 68 flaws.| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Zoom releases Mail and Calendar clients in beta as part of its Zoom One interface, announces an AI-powered Zoom Virtual Agent chatbot coming in 2023, and more — Available as a beta release, the Outlook-like Mail and Calendar will slot neatly into the company's new unified Zoom … | Jon Keegan / The Markup: |
A look at data brokers selling “comprehensive” profiles of potential voters to campaigns, including phone geolocation data gleaned from real-time auctions — Before you got in line on Election Day, the emerging and largely unregulated political tracking industry was able to trace your movements| Financial Times: |
Sources: TikTok slashed its global revenue targets from $12B-$14.5B to ~$10B; employees complain that the company overspent in salaries, social events, and more — Fast-growing social platform cuts ambitious goals by 20% as some staff complain of lavish spending| Sydney Morning Herald: |
Australia's top health insurer Medibank confirms a ransomware group began posting stolen data of its 9.7M current and former customers on a REvil dark web forum — Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size — A ransomware group has begun posting customer data stolen …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Laika, which offers companies an automated security compliance service, raised a $50M Series C led by Fin Capital, bringing its total funding to $98M — Compliance with privacy and security frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR has become a central component not just of how …
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